Buran-Energia

Here is some pictures of the atmospherical test shuttle, Buran OK-GLI at the MAKS 1999.

The MAKS is the international aerospace exhibition of Moscow. It’s taking place on different Moscow’s airports ( Jukovski, Vnukovo, Modino, etc). The first exhibition began in 1992, since 1993 it has been renamed in MAKS and take place every 2 years.

The other pictures here.

Here is a small reporting about the Buran-Energia project which was broadcasted on American television on last November15, for the 19th anniversary of the first flight of the shuttle.

I just uploaded a part about the Antonov 225′s engine the D-18T in the Mriya’s chapter. This part includes detailled schematics of the differents sets of the engine as well as technical datas.

Triumph and tragedy of « Energia » is a book about the most powerful launcher in the world: Energia. Written by Boris Ivanovich Gubanov, project manager, he tells the tragic history and the anecdotes of the elaboration of the launcher, as well as the vision of the Soviet’s space in the 2000s.

I just published a new chapter in the documentation part. It’s newspaper articles published from the begining of the project until the end of 1988.

Those newspapers are predominantly in Russian (Pravda, Red Star, …) and was translated automatically.

Even if they have mistakes they are interesting for feeling the atmosphere of those days.

To mark the anniversary of the website and to wait until the new DVD version of the encyclopaedia in April 2008, I decrease the price of the Buran encyclopaedia of 25% so it is 28$ instead of 38$.

Good download !

Hello dear reader,

today it’s been 1 year since the buran.fr and buran-energia.com websites are online. The website transcend my expectations, indeed when I began I wanted to publish only few pages on Buran (in French) and let it like that, moreover I though I will had only few visitors per day (niche subject !).

But, in fact the site contains thousands of pages (2 langages merged), has a traffic of ~350-400 unique visitor per day and I still have lots of document to publish.

At the begining the site should have been only in french, but due to the poor quantity of interesting sources on internet I decided to translate it, but I’m not bilingual and some pages contains grammar errors or wrong sentences, if an English-speaking guy could point them to me I will appreciate.

This success is also yours because you made it happen, Thank you !

2 graphs to illustrate the life of the site during the past year:
72 250 unique visitors

585 500 pages read

Come back in few days for a little surprise!

A reader of Livejournal.com recently took pictures of the shuttle 2.01. These pictures were taken from a boat on a canal around the Tushino airbase. We can see the 2.01 model, without wings, covered by a tarpaulin as the only protection.